Inefficient product derivation practices can greatly diminish the productivity gains expected from a software product line approach. As a foundation for systematic and efficient product derivation a better understanding ...

Evaluation is one of the buzzwords of current day parlance in Irish policymaking circles. It is one of those words (like sustainable development a number of years ago) to which everyone claims allegiance, but few actually ...

The SCONUL Seven Pillars of Information Literacy model was revised in 2011 to reflect the interpretation of information literacy in today’s environment. Subsequently, a number of lenses have been developed to adapt the ...

Up to now, most open source software (OSS) deployments have been in invisible infrastructure applications running on back-office servers (GNU/Linux, Apache, and so on). Beaumont Hospital in Ireland recently started developing ...

In this paper, we discuss our research towards developing special properties that introduce autonomic behavior in pattern-recognition systems. In our
approach we use ASSL (Autonomic System Speci cation Language) to formally ...

This paper introduces a project recently started by the authors on the relationship
between European integration and regionalisation in both extant member states and
applicant countries. Our main question is whether we ...

The Autonomic System Specification Language (ASSL) is a formal method dedicated to autonomic computing, and as such, assists developers with formal specification, validation and code generation of autonomic systems. Due ...

Multivariate prediction algorithms such as FRAX® and QFractureScores provide an opportunity for new prognostic biomarkers to be developed and incorporated, potentially leading to better fracture prediction. As more research ...

Among the other Central and Eastern European countries, Romania is one of the
emerging outsourcing destinations. The current paper presents the findings of an
exploratory study on the development of outsourcing relationships ...

Information-seeking has been recognized as a
core subtask in software maintenance. While much of the research in this area attempts to identify the information sought by programmers, the work to date has been typically ...

We present a new formal approach to the implementation of embedded systems, arrived at by introducing self-management capabilities to the same. We use the ASSL (Autonomic System Specification Language) framework to approach ...

There are aspects of New Product Development (NPD) business processes that pose particularly difficult challenges
to Organizational Learning systems. Short product and process life cycles compress the available time window ...

The primary aim of this research was to develop and validate a tool to measure
the correlates of physical activity among adolescent males and females.
Secondary aims were to investigate the correlate profiles and ...

There is increasing demand for effective software process assessment and improvement in the medical device industry. This is due to the expanding and complex role that software now plays in the operation and functionality ...

Since the mid 1990’s there has been an increased emphasis on ICTs in national educational policies, particularly in developed countries. This has been reflected in increased levels of Government expenditure coupled with ...

Purpose: This paper describes the development and process evaluation of an educational intervention, designed to help general practitioners (GPs) identify and manage problem alcohol use among problem drug users.
Methodology: ...